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Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09

cussed one question in connection with this | interesting animal which Chambers Journal thinks has not been touched
 upon by previous inquirers. With l the help of MT. John Hen
 derson of Glasgow, the well known shipbuilder, he had calculated the horse
 power which must be exercised by a large
 whale so as to enable the creature to acquire
 a speed of twelve miles an hour. For the
 purpose of this strange calculation the case
 was taken of a whale whick was stranded at Longniddry, in the county of Haddington, some years ago.. This whale had a tail which measured nearly twenty feet from end to end of it's ianges, the weight of the animal being data to go upon, it was calculated that 8 whale of such proportions, in order to attain the speed above mentioned, must exert propei1ing force of no less than 145 horse power.
 Experiments made in Germany to discov- CT the best method of cleaning woolens have led to the following conclusions: First, the liquids used for washing must be as hot as possible; second, for the removal of greasy dirt, sweat, etc., borax is of so little value that it's application would be mere waste, and, though soap lye is better, the preference must be given to soap fye along with ammo. nia, mixture which works wonders by quickly dissolving dirt in particular parts which are hard to cleanse, raising and reviv- ing even bright colors; third, that on the other hand, for cleaning white woolen goods there is nothing which even approaches borax-soap lye and borax, applied boiling hot. gives to white woolens 1ooseness and dazzling whiteness ess-wwhhich they often do not possess when they are new; fourth, ff shrinking is to be entirely avoided the dry ing must be accelerated by repeatedly press ing the woolens between soft cloths. Tn no case should the woolens be dried in the sun, as they become dry and hard, they being best dried in moderate current of air, and in cold weather in a warm place, but not too near the source of heat In the above ex- periments all the various degrees of heat were tried, from the hottest to the coolest temperature; all the favorite cleaning ma terials were also used-soap, borax, am monia, benzine, and mixtures of these.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
Saturday, April 9, 1887.
A NEEDED LESSON .


 The result of the election in Chicago has taught the labor party lesson, or, at least, there is 8 lesson in it which that party would do well to learn. Some of the labor politicians in Chicago show signs of having learned it. It is related that Socialist Frank Dvorak, who ran for alderman on the labor ticket and was defeated, and Charles Tenn pie, chairman of the labor party's commit tee on organization and a man with no warm friendship for socialism, had row at the headquarters of the labor party at which some significant truths came out. Dvorak began denouncing the traitors who, he said, sold out the party and caused the defeat "Served you right" said Temple. "You got what you deserved, and you the only traitors. You tried to drive your socialist ic doctrines down our necks. You showed us to one side, while you rubbed in your red flag nonsense, and we had to sit still and let you rub. You forced every nomination that was made on us in spite of ourselves. You forced the ward nominations and you even nominated the county and town tickets" /" And more of the same sort.
 The mistake made by the leaders of the labor party in Chicago in allowing the social ists and anarchists to combine with them was serious one. The Chicago Herald tells the plain truth when it says: The rank and file of the labor party are merely passive. They neither plot nor execute. They are not actively hostile to anything that is es- teemed by the mass of American citizens. But they vote, and their organization, civic and political. is such that they respond i'm mediately to any demand which their lead CTS may make upon them. When these lead CTS are found to be admitted svmpathizers with anarchy, the boon companions of mur- derers, the money-getters for felons in the clutches of the law, the orators who indulge the hope that the red flag will yet float in place of the American standard, and the blatherskites who freely proclaim the gospel of destruction the remedy for abuses now existing men not under this baleful infu- ence can have but one opinion as to the ten dency of the party thus ridden to death. It is inextricably involved with the crime of bomb throwing, with the madness of revolu- ton, and with the folly of socialistic agita- tion. If the thousands of honest and patriotic men connected with this party wish it to live they will at once, and without equivocation, repudiate these vicious lead CTS. If they prefer to see it die the death they will supinely submit to their dictation a little while longer.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
COOL.

An exchange says that when cne is caught in burning hotel he should keep cool. It is a great truth.-Judge.
 "How did that man lose his hair, papap' 'tEating pie, my dear. He's piebald. ."-New York Morning Journal.
 Woman will never be placed on an equality with man until she is given pocket which can be as easily found his.-Boston Trans script.
 Force of Habit.-Lady Gin grocery store)- ''Let me have pound of butter. please. '' Clerk (who used to tend in cigar store)- ''Mild or strong9'-Harper's Bazar.
 Quite Friendly-''Don't you find the peo- pie around here very sociable!" asked Cob wigger of new neighbor. "Yes, indeed, I do,' was the hearty response ''Only mo- ment ago I met beggar and he held out his hand to me. ."-Harper's Bazar.
 The true boundary line between Connec- ticut and Rhode Island was only settled last week, and Rhode Island gained from six to nine feet of land If this goes on the weight of Rhode Island will tip over the con- tinent and more seismic disturbances may be looked for.-New York Commercial Adver- tiser.
 "Ah! what's this?' exclaimed the intelli- gent compositor. '''Sermons in stones, books in the running brooksP That can't be right. I have it He means Sermons in books, stones in the running brooks That's sense." And that is how the writer found it. And yet he was not happy.--Boston Transcript.
 local divine relates with much gusto the unwonted honors paid him at a recently at tended funeral service. On his arrival the widower-chief mourner-arose and ad- dressed the assembly as follows: "My friends, I have the pleasure of introducing to you the Rev. Dr. =. We'd better sing something. Suppose we try the Doxology. .'-Boston Com monwealth.
 Gentleman-You have nice store here. Milliner-Yes, it's very nice since we got it all fixed up for our Easter opening. Gentle man-I would like to purchase business of this kind if I could obtain it on reasonable terms. Milliner-For yourself or a friendi Gentleman-Well, you see, have wife and six daughters and it's almost Easter.-Pitts- burg Dispatch.
 She Had Changed.-"Good morning, ma'am," said an old lady. "You don't know me; but hear your mas alive yet, and we're old friends. We taught two deestrick schools in the same town in the same year when we was both sixteen years old. She was a beauty then, but I hain't seen her since, though we're both of us eighty now. Is your ma well, and can I see her?" Ger tainly," responded her hostess affably ''Mother is we'll, and will be very glad to see you again, am sure. Excuse me while speak to her." A few moments later halt ing step was heard on the stairs, and then an aged lady entered, well preserved for hel years, and with still bright eye, but very wrinkled and decrepit. The visitor rose gazed eagerly into her face and then ex claimed, in tone of great surprise and dis appointment, ''Why, Mary, how you have d!"-Harper's Bazaar.
 The bluebird sat in the apple tree, The redbreast sat in the grove;
 They shivered these notes from their little throats ''Oh, bring a red hot stove.'' Washington Critic.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
The Nuisances of Paris.


 The boulevard is becoming more and more disagreeable, owing to the continual increase of proeessions of ragged sandwich men, who by day carry huge placards mounted banner wise on poles, and by night transparent ad- vertisements in the shape of lanterns or lu- minous tambourines. Hatters, cheap jewel CTS, music hall keepers, showmen of all kinds and of all grades resort to this method of obtaining publicity and impeding circula- tion. Another nuisance is the bowling 'camelot," who deals in second-class news papers and broadsheets and bawls his ware from morning until midnight. News, scan- dal and pornography share in almost equal proportions the attention of these hoarse voiced and horrible creatures, whose pres ence and whose cries render the boulevards most disagreeable promenade.
 The other day group of artists protesting an ardent love for Paris, and having at their head the great Meissonier, protested against the erection of the one thousand foot Eiffel tower on the ground that iJ would dis6gure and dishonor Paris, the queen of cities. In the interest of Paris it would be perhaps ad- visable to protest against the disagreement of the streets of the capital by these crowds of sandwich men and bawling hawkers. Liberty is doubtless an excellent thing, but in Paris we are beginning to have too much of it. With its streets and gardens, it's monuments, it's theaters, it's fine houses and it's mild climate, Paris oug Int to be fa- vorite winter city. Bnt if the authorities do not look to it, and if the Parisisns do not | themselves make an effort toward gayety and elegance, Paris will soon become neither a | favorite winter city nor favorite summer
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
THANKING GOD FOR BEER.
Opening Ceremonies at the Convel tion of the Brevvmasterss AsseTs

Opening Ceremonies at the Conven- tion of the Breyvmasterss Assem- plies.
 From the Chicago Tribune-1
 Three hundred and fifty burly, stout faced, ruddy-cheeked men were seated around large tables entirely filling Uhlich's Hall. on North Clark street, last evening. Each one had frothing glass of beer at his elbow, which was replenished as often ss re- quired by swift-moving colored walters, whose office was no sinecure. No other bev- craze was obtainable; probably none other was desired by the assemblage. Each one appeared to be on his mettle to prove his ca pacity was equal to the occasion, especially as there was nothing to pay. This unique assemblage was the first convention of the Brewmasters' assemblies of the United States, and those present had journeyed from every State in the Union from Maine to California. Brewmasters are those in charge of brewing, and not the owners of breweries, as the name might imply.
 Shortly after eight o'clock MT. William Seib, president of the Chicago association, of Seipp's brewery, called the meeting to or der in German, in which language were all proceedings, and nominated MT. Louis Hook
 
 delivered an address of welcome, during which he said: "It is the usual thing to open large assemblies and conventions with prayer, and it therefore behooves us to con form to the established usage. As no mem Der of any denomination is present I take upon myself the onerous task, which think should conform with the disposition of this assemblage" He then with fervor and sol emn action poured forth prayer commen eing thus: 70, Godl Thou hast not only provided the water for our use. but also to the end that our bodies may be strength ened and our souls rejoiced Thou hast granted us other and pleasanter beverages | especially beer. Brewers, as we are the in struments of heavenly will, let us pray earn estly that the greatness of this gift is no | misapplied. To that end let us pray fol good beer and plenty of it, and let us earn estly resolve from this time on to brew nont | other"
 The prayer and speech were received witl tumultuous applause, which redoubled whel Rosenbeckers band of forty performer struck up the 'sHops and Malt March," whicl was composed for the occasion by Professo | Rosenbecker. Mir. Emil Dietzsch then reat | poem of bacchanalian character strongl deriding the temperance agitators. Tn | tSalamander'' was then sung with honors l all standing. The 'sSalamander', is dis | tinctive German institution and is the gres ttour de force" of the university students c the Fatherland. It varies in form, but tn main object of its creation is the consump tion of beer combined with the greatest pos sible noise, This one ran as follows, B,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
The contradictory Brahmin.

IFTOln
 The brahmin is a bundle of extraordinary contradictions. Witness him buying a load of wood from pariah. He halls the unfor- tunate creature, who. setting down his bur den, edges away while the brahmin exam ines it. The brahmin then moves away. The pariah approaches the wood, and with his hand before his mouth, lest his breath touch the person of the august purchaser, he concludes the sale. No pariah uses the pub
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09

One Observer thinks that he. Simply r Beats the Air with his Wings.

From St. Nicholas.l
 When first came to Canada found there were various opinions as to the method of making the sound. One man, who read 8 great deal bvt rarely went into the woods, said that the sound was produced by the birds voice. Some of the hunters told me that the bird struck it's wings on the log, and others that it struck them together over it's back.
 did not give much heeda t6 t6 th sEs bhookmans explanation, for all the woodmen laughed at, it. I soon learned to discredit also the idea that the bird thumped the log with it's wings, because, whether it stood on a stump or a stone, rotten log or solid timber, the sound was always the same. Lastly, I did not believe that the wings were struck to- gether, because when a pigeon or a rooster strikes its wings together the sound is al- ways a sharp crack. At length, after watch ing the bird carefully, came to the conclu- sion that it drums by beating the air only. It is not an easy matter to get sight of a partridge when he is drumming, but man aged to do it by crawling on my hands and knees toward the bird, lying still while he was quiet and only moving forward when he renewed his noisy courtship; for it is to woo and win his mate that Sir Ruffed Grouse in dulges in these musical exercises. In this way contrived to come within twenty feet without alarming him. Through the elder thicket I could just his shapely form strutting about like a turkey cock; then for moment he stood upright with his feathers lying close. Suddenly his wings flashed and at the same moment I heard the loud thump. Then for a few seconds he stood looking about as though nothing had happened; but presently came a second flash and thump, and others followed at lessening intervals, until at last the Serenade rolled away like the galloping of horses or tbe rumbling of distant thunder
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NO. 35

lie highway made by British money and un- der British supervision while a noble brah- min passes. Brahmin youths are beset from their birth with tedious restrictions; the dig nifty of their race and their own dignity is theme which never tires with their parents. Perhaps their own luxury is that of taking snuff, and in this even the law interferes and lays down certain age when they may be- gin; to 8 bachelor this pleasure is prohibited; !; snuff taking can only begin with matrimony
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misIellaneuns.
EASTER BLOOM.

It brightens, it lifts. Lilies bloom, and bonnets bloom in Aprils young days, and new world of color toys with inner and outer vision. What else comes forth resplendent in new dress to add to the beauty of the whole? Does not the young man, (not so very young either, may be) bloom out in neutral and complimentary co1orss And, in all seriousness, what's more fitting? Can the heart sing when the body mourns in unbe- coming garmentss Will not simple thing deftly turned collar make the wearer sing blithely? You know it.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
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introduced bill in the Massachusetts legis- sugar by the addition of glucose, molasses, settings, etc.
 You can't always tell what Lovely Woman will do At Emporia, Kansas, one-fourth of the women who voted cast their ballots against the candidate of the Women's Chris tian Temperance union.
 According to the inquiry of the Civil Ser vice Reform league, the law has been disre- garded in about one-fourth of the 4,O00 employees protected by the civil service regu- 1ation, and for the rest of the 70,000 en- ployes there has been no reform whatever. A clean sweep has been made in the post offices None cleaner has been made in the history of the government the approach ing t'blue book" will demonstrate. In the presidential offices not one-tenth is left of the men in office two years ago.
 Dr. Prudden of New York has made 8 careful analysis of the Hudson river ice, and he finds that clear cakes of ice, taken from different localities, vary very much as to their purity. Those taken from the river near Albany show 3, 192 living bacteria in a cubic centimeter, while ice from other parts of the river, some distance from the places into which a city's sewerage is poured, con- tains no bacteria, or only few-the speci- mems from Barren Island and Coxsackie con- taining only 32 and 122 respectively. Dr. Prudden urges that the matter of public supply of ice should be put under scientific and sanitary control.
 The Memphis Appeal has had the scales removed from it's eyes. It says: Jefferson, the illustrious author of the Declaration of Independence, every line of it pregnant with meaning for the coming changes in the des- tiny of mankind, whose ardor was only equaled by his vigorous defense of freedom, deserves not only monument in St. Louis, in Memphis and in New Orleans, but at the national capital, where it should be as lofty l as mans genius could compass. Had the American people been guided by his wisdom slavery would have been wiped out in it's almost incipiency and the republic been saved the overwhelming calamity individual as we'll as national-of a blighting and bloody civil war.
 Tomorrow, if the weather is fine, those | inhabitants of Long Island city, and such others want to go there, can play base ball without fear of getting into trouble with the law. Mayor Gleason having been inter viewed concerning the matter and asked ii l the city charter had been changed, replied '.No, the charter has nothing to do with base ball playing, but base ball playing had some thing to do with my election. told ths young n4en if was elected I would allow them to have ball games on Sundays, and will keep to my word" The mayor, whe1 further questioned as to the breaking of tht Sabbath, said: 'tI think the young men ar.
 much better off in an open field playing bal
 than in saloons playing pool, cards and othe
 games for drinks"
 la lecture recently delivered at the Phil
 osophical Institution, Edinburgh, by Sir Vii
 liam Turner, professor of anatomy in tn
 university of that city, much information
 was given concerning "Whales, thei Structure and Habits" The professor dis
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09

tween each couplet the band played chord and at the conclusion discord. Catch hold of that thing there, thing there, Ira la la la. Thing there, thing there, tra la la Ia. (Here each took hold of his glass.) Lift up that thing there, thing therel (Esch one elevateS.)
 Set down that thing there, thing there! Sip at that stuff there
 Gulp down that stuff there!
 Hold out your glass therel
 Set down that glass there!
 Rub with your glass there
 (Here the whole assembly ground the bottoms of
 the glasses the tables till it made racket that
 could have been heard some blocks away) Drum with your glass there!
 (Here they pounded on the table with the three
 hundred and fifty glasses.)
 Harder with your glass therel (Here they redoubled the splitting din. and it
 was kept up fe for quite & minute, until number
 Set down that glass therel
 (This was done if it was still whole)
 This concluded the "Salamander.'
 Several speeches were made during inter missions by the band. Mir. Hook again came to the front as leader in another German eel ebration ceremony termed Fireworks. " This consists of number of novel senti- ments or toasts, each one being signalized by placing finger in the mouth and producing the noise made by rocket in it's flight. This, done in concert by over three hundred men, made an indescribably uncaany sound. The assemblage in these and like diversions, interspersed with musical selections and the consumption of beer, worried along until midnight, when it dispersed in most jovial and contented frame of mind.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-09
EASTER OPENING !!

Comes on Saturday. We have been leading up to it by careful manufacture for some time. The plant has grown, is now budded, and shall bloom on Saturday. The LIGHT OVERCOAT is conventional Easter cover ing, and it goes before seven months to come, Light and dark, and desirable colors be- tween. They give to the wearer, apparently, if not really, just little dash, and quicken- ing of spirit. Price $6.50 to $25.
 Their companions, the Prince Albert Suits, sprung from royal patent, and still have the support of royalty. Simply com plete! Made with honesty, fitted with ex- actness. Price s22 to $50.
 The Children are included, and we offer for their mental and physical, ''CLOTHING BOUQUETS" in High-Art Suits at S1 to $15. LARGER BOYS, s5 to S29. Shirt Waists 25 cents to $1.50.
 N. B.-No more of the $6.5O Blue Flannel, Indigo Suits till Saturday, when 200 Suits will be placed on sale. They will go quick ly. Real value $10.
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